Tambanella
No picture of Tambanella was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Tambanella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BakevelliidaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pterioidea
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Pterioidea
- Motility
- stationary, attached, epibiontPBDB, for Pterioidea
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
- Environment
- marine,brackishPBDB, for Ostreida
Time the record covers
At least 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 264.28 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 266.9 Mya to 251.902 Mya.
40 occurrences of Tambanella on record, most of them in the Permian. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
40 occurrences- Permian100%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
11 formations
- Dalong Formation13
- Longtan Formation7
- Djebel Tebaga Formation3
- Bellerophon Formation3
- Middle Shaly Facies Formation2
- Djebel Tebaga Biohermal Complex Formation2
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The named rock units Tambanella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Tambanella and its relatives
PermianWhere Tambanella and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
216 taxa- Hunanopecten exilis7 sites
- Hunanopecten qujiangensis5 sites
- Aviculopecten4 sites
- Orthothetina ruber4 sites
- Palaeoneilo tebagaensis4 sites
- Phestia4 sites
- Colospongia cortexifera3 sites
- Intratubospongia osiensis3 sites
- Nuculopsis alta3 sites
- Nuculopsis wymmensis3 sites
- Prestellispongia paula3 sites
- Prestellispongia permica3 sites
- Spica spica3 sites
- Stellispongiella bacilla3 sites
- Stellispongiella insculpta3 sites
- Unionites jacobi3 sites
- Volsellina carinata3 sites
- Astartella2 sites
- Auriculospongia auriculata2 sites
- Bakevellia (Bakevellia) ceratophaga2 sites
- Cassiavellia nadkevnae2 sites
- Cystauletes lercarensis2 sites
- Discosiphonella mammilosus2 sites
- Edmondia2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 30 sites for Tambanella, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
10 references- Bivalves from the upper part of the Permian in southern Hunan, China13
- Permian pelecypods from Tunisia7
- A new bivalve fauna from the Permian-Triassic boundary section of southwestern China6
- Yao et al., 19805
- Bivalves from the Changhsingian (upper Permian) Bellerophon Formation of the Dolomites (Italy): ancestors of Lower Triassic post-extinction benthic communities3
- Guo, 19852
- Permian marine paleoecology and its implications for large-scale decoupling of brachiopod and bivalve abundance and diversity during the Lopingian (Late Permian)1
- Evolutionary change of bivalves from Changhsingian to Griesbachian in south China1
- Bivalvia1
- Permian bivalves of Japan1
Each of the 40 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Tambanella was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Tambanella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Tambanella was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itBakevelliidae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Nakazawa and Newell 1968